Psychology 2036A/B Lecture : Psychology Notes
3 Feb 2012
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: psychological consequences associated with ill health have long been noted. In the 1970s, psychological principles began being applied to understand and improve health and health care. The emergence of the fields of behavioural medicine and health psychology occurred at this time. Behavioural medicine (1977) is a branch of medicine concerned with the relationship between health and behaviour. Health psychology (1980) is the application of psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of illness as well as to people s attempts to maintain health and well-being. Type a personality people are more prone to heart attacks or illness. They injected people with viruses, and those that got sick tended to be more stressed. People with anxiety have higher stress levels, and have higher cortisol and acth levels, and will have more issues with being ill. In depression there is an anxiety component, and the immune system is weakened and the hypocampus shrinks.
